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Whenever there’s an election in any democratic country, its — and sometimes the world’s media — goes tends to be put on full alert….
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Twitter frequently works as a kind of alarm bell for journalists. Many reporters, for example, follow hashtags like #disaster or #breaking, and receive tweets…
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Digital matters. And even in a country like South Africa, where people in the advertising industries have been a bit slower to adopt to…
